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#liverpool-fc

Liverpool's hopes of retaining the Premier League title in 2025/26 are all but dead and buried - and it's only December. The team have been on a torrid run of late, losing nine of their last 13 matches in all competitions, with the likelihood of being crowned back-to-back champions now decidedly slim. Slot's men are only nine points off the early pace set by league leaders Arsenal but six league defeats from their opening 13 Premier League fixtures this season paints a very different picture.

I don't know what is in your head but if, for example, you want another system with five defenders that could be an issue. I don't even have five defenders. The system we are playing now suits the players best. They have played this system probably throughout their whole career and there is hardly any training time for us. So it is almost impossible to change our complete idea about football if we play every two days.

Liverpool's not a sacking club, the former LFC defender said. Liverpool are different from almost every club in European football the manager is the king, the manager gets time. Liverpool have never sacked a manager who's won the league. Never in their history I couldn't believe at the weekend that people were talking about the manager's job, when I spoke to Liverpool supporters after losing at home to Nottingham Forest. I've always been in the camp that you stick with the manager,

I don't have the answers, I'm the same as everyone else. It's unacceptable. I don't even have the words. I'm past being angry or sad, I'm at the point where it's hard to find the words. I'm a fan, I'm seeing it like this. I haven't experienced a team playing this bad, or results like this.

Forest opened the scoring by taking advantage of Liverpool's poor form from set-pieces this season. Excluding penalties, Slot's side have conceded nine league goals from set-pieces this season - as many as they did in the whole of last season. For the first goal, Liverpool had six players in the six-yard box including goalkeeper Alisson, while the visitors smartly only placed two in there.

who took over the Liverpool job as a 34-year-old in 1985 after Joe Fagan resigned following the Heysel Stadium disaster. Well, it was a surprise, Dalglish recalls to FourFourTwo. The way that I saw it, I was just going to give my best, and if my best transpired not to be good enough, then I'd hold my hands up and say, This isn't for me it's not fair on the club, so get somebody else in.'

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson is fit to return for the champions as the Premier League returns this weekend. The Brazilian, 33. has not featured since injuring his hamstring in September but is an option to start against Nottingham Forest at Anfield on Saturday. Manager Arne Slot said: "Alisson trained last week and this week so he will be able to play tomorrow if things work out well today. "If he's ready to play, he will start."

He's probably the one and only untouchable player in that squad right now. They need to keep him and Jarrod will be looking to build his team around him. He's on a long-term contract until 2030, so it's not like West Ham are under any real pressure to sell Jarrod Bowen as well. But, no surprise that clubs will be looking at him. Tottenham, Liverpool because even in that struggling side, he still scores goals and he's a proven Premier League player.